(parted) p
Number Start End Size Type File system Flags
...
10 38.8GB 43.1GB 4302MB logical ext3
11 57.1GB 134GB 77.2GB logical ext3
(parted) move
Partition number? 10
Start? 52.8GB
End? [57.1GB]?
Error: Can't have overlapping partitions.
Is there a command to make it print more decimal places? Is there heck. Why ( Read more... )

This post is for anyone who, like me, has googled for phrases such as "consolekit.getseats request failed" or "daemon exit: live and let die" in an attempt to find out what's wrong with their system and not ended up finding anything useful (except, hopefully, for this post).

( The rest of you can skip this. :-) )

LiveJournal Thread Expander with Expand All
http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/27128
I've hacked up a Thread Expander script for Greasemonkey. It has only been tested on a small number of layouts, but it seems to work for me so please bang on it and report any breakages here.

For recent updates see below. What does it do?
We've all ( Read more... )

… when, during the course of your job, you have to ask someone to clear their cache and have to resist the urge to just point them at FAQ  160. Or the tutorial (which I've just now noticed is out of date because it doesn't cover Firefox 2).

While I'm here:

User interfaces we have hated #76 ( Read more... )

( As promised earlier; geeky stuff that's only really relevant to someone Googling for this info )

About three weeks ago one of our research groups took delivery of an expensive serverwhich went into our machine room. Although it's from Sun it's based on 64-bit ( Read more... )

I have a Belinea LCD monitor next to me which, when it has no signal (for instance when the computer goes into DPMS screen-saver mode) flashes the whole screen red, green, blue, white and black in repetitive sequence with a period of about two seconds. It's only been doing this since yesterday. Has anyone seen this before, and is it something I ( Read more... )

Three letters: WPA.

( The boring details )